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2009 Conference Best Paper Awards CICC gratefully acknowledges 2009 Best Paper Sponsors: Best Invited Paper: SMSC Best Regular Paper: Altera Best Student Paper: Qualcomm Best Invited Paper Challenges in the Design of Cognitive Radios Behzad Razavi, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Best Regular Paper A 120dB Dynamic Range 400mW Class-D Speaker Driver with 4^th-order PWM PWM Modulator Minsheng Wang, Xicheng Jiang, Jungwoo Song and Todd Brooks, Broadcom Corp., Irvine, CA Best Student Paper An Area- and Power-efficient Monolityic Buck Converter with Fast Transient Response Ying Wu, Sam Tsui and Philip Mok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong Best Poster Paper A Monolithic Buck Converter Using Differentially Enhanced Duty Ripple Controle Jiwei Fan, X. Li*, J. Park, A. Huang, North Carolina State University, *Texas Instruments Corp. 2008 Conference Best Paper Awards CICC gratefully acknowledges 2008 Best Paper Sponsors: Best Invited Paper and Best Student Paper: ON Semiconductor Best Regular Paper: Altera Best Invited Paper A/D Converter Trends: Power Dissipation, Scaling and Digitally Assisted Architectures Boris Murmann, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Best Regular Paper Clocking Circuits for a 16Gb/s Memory Interface Ting Wu, Xudong Shi, Kambiz Kaviani, Haechang Lee, Jung-Hoon Chun, T.J. Chin, Jie Shen, Rich Perego, Ken Chang, Rambus, Los Altos, CA Best Student Paper 20 GHz Low Power QVCO and De-skew Techniques in 0.\13um Digital CMOSSNDR Masum Hossain, Anthony Chan Carusone, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Best Poster Paper Minimizing the Supply Sensitivity of CMOS ring Oscillator by Jointly Biasing the Supply and Control Voltage Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, Jay Maxey*, Chih-Kong Ken Yang, Universityi of California, Los Angeles, CA, *Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX 2007 Conference Best Paper Awards CICC gratefully acknowledges 2007 Best Paper Sponsors: Best Invited Paper and Best Regular Paper: Altera Best Student Paper: GE Global Research Best Poster Paper: Analog Devices Best Invited Paper Revolutionary NanoSilicon Ancillary Technologies for Ultimate-Performance Gigascale System Muhannad S. Bakir, Bing Dang, and James D. Meindl Microelectronics Research Center; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Best Regular Paper A 2.5Gb/s Burst-Mode CDR based on a 1/8th Rate Dual Pulse Ring Oscillator Sander L.J. Gierkink, Conexant Systems, Red Bank, New Jersey Best Student Paper A Delta-Sigma Modulator with a Widely Programmable Center Frequency and 82-dB Peak SNDR Kentaro Yamamoto, Anthony Chan Carusone, and Francis P. Dawson University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2006 Conference Best Paper Awards Best Paper Awards graciously sponsored by GE Global Research Best Invited Paper Press Kit Paper 8-6 (download) Implications of Proximity Effects for Analog Design P.G. Drennan, M.L. Kniffin, D.R. Locascio, Freescale Semiconductor, Tempe, AZ Best Regular Paper Press Kit Paper 10-7 (download) Self-Referenced Sense Amplifier for Across-Chip-Variation Immune Sensing in High-Performance Content Addressable Memories I. Arsovski, R. Wistort, IBM Silicon Solutions, Essex Junction, VT Best Student Paper Press Kit Paper 28-6 (download) A 0.6V Highly Linear Switched-R-MOSFET-C Filter P. Kurahashi, P.Hanumolu, G. Temes, U-K. Moon, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Best Poster Paper Press Kit Poster Paper 21 (download) GHz Serial Passive Clock Distribution in VLSI Using Bidirectional Signaling V. Prodanov, M. Banu, MHI Consulting 2005 Best Paper Awards Best Invited Paper Paper 16-2 A Digital Clock and Data Recovery Architecture for Multi-Gigabit/s Binary Links J. Sonntag and J. Stonick, Synopsys, Inc., Hillsboro, OR Best Regular Paper Paper 12-2 An 8Mb 1T1C Ferroelectric Memory with Zero Cancellation and Micro-Granularity Redundancy J. Eliason, S. Mandan*, H. McAdams*, G. Fox, T. Moise*, C. Lin, K. Schwartz, J. Gallia*, E. Jabillo, B. Craus and S. Summerfelt*, Ramtron International Corp., Colorado Springs, CO, *Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX Best Student Paper Paper 26-2 A Precision CMOS Amplifier using Floating-Gates for Offset Cancellation V. Srinivasan, G.J. Serrano, J. Gray, and P. Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 2004 Best Paper Awards Best Invited Paper Paper 13-1 Vibrating RF MEMS for Next Generation Wireless Applications Clark Nguyen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Best Regular Paper Paper 18-4 A CMOS Direct-Conversion Transceiver for IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLANs P. Zhang, L. Der, D. Guo, I. Sever, T. Bourdi, C. Lam, A. Zolfaghari, J. Chen, D. Gambetta, B. Cheng, S. Gower, S. Hart, L. Huynh, T. Nguyen, and B. Razavi*, RF Micro Devices, San Jose, CA, and *University of California, Los Angeles, CA Best Student Paper Paper 26-5 A 24GHz, +14.5dBM Fully-Integrated Power Amplifier in 0.18um CMOS A. Komijani and A. Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 2003 Best Paper Awards Best Invited Paper Paper 14-1 Advances in RF Packaging Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Communications Larry Larson and Daryl Jessie*, University of California, San Diego, CA, *Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Best Regular Paper Paper 31-5 Noise Analysis Methodology for Partially Depleted SOI Circuits Mini Nanua and David Blaauw*, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, Austin, TX, *University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Best Student Paper Paper 6-2 Non-Linear Transmission Lines for Pulse Shaping in Silicon E. Afshari and A. Hajimiri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA